Brady has had plenty of happy moments in New York / New Jersey as the Patriots have routinely beat up on the Jets for the past decade and a half. And Brady got a pass from New York judge Richard Berman last fall when Berman wiped out Brady's four game suspension for Deflategate.

But last week, appeals court judges in New York hammered NFLPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler and many are thinking that Brady's side could lose this time around in the Deflategate proceedings.

Here's some more Brady/Manhattan history: several years back he was spotted wearing a New York Yankees baseball cap - outraging the city of Boston. The Boston Herald ran the headline: "Tom, say it ain't so" the next day.